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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
About 400 people packed the Marshall Community Center auditorium on Monday night to learn more about Dominion Virginia Power’s intentions to build a 40-mile, 500,000-volt transmission line through portions of Frederick County, Warren, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties. The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) sponsored the meeting.
For two hours, PEC prepped opponents for Dominion’s power line workshops, scheduled for Tuesday night at the Middleburg Community Center and Wednesday night at the Marshall Ruritan Club. The Wednesday, Nov. 29 Marshall Ruritan Club meeting will be from 5-8 p.m.
PEC President Chris Miller started Monday night’s meeting with a PowerPoint presentation outlining Dominion’s proposal.
The power company released a map Monday showing 72 potential alignments along Interstate 66 that would link the Meadow Brook substation in Frederick to the Loudoun substation near Areola. Dominion spokespeople insist the company needs a transmission line to meet Northern Virginia’s increasingly voracious appetite for energy.
“Dominion needs to build a line to keep lights on in Northern Virginia and to avoid rolling blackouts by 2011,” company spokeswoman Le-Ha Anderson said Tuesday. “That’s the real reason. We didn’t fabricate it.” The company has no choice but to build a line in the proposed corridor, Anderson said. (See map Page A6.)
“We understand PEC’s perspective and we understand that people don’t want (a power line) in their backyards,” she said. “But we have to be realistic about what customers want. And that’s electricity on demand when thev want it.”
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